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Random API Key reset

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One of my API Key has randomly reseted, this is the one of the playername JamiePotterLive (UUID 2f0f1190f9774e2185b00a28bc201763). The key has reseted between 5:50am and 6:50am ET as the execution of my script at 5:50am was good but the one at 6:50am returned {"success":false,"cause":"Invalid API key"}.

The issue is not related to a compromised account, mute or ban because as we can see on my recent servers, I haven’t logged on and I’m not muted: https://i.imgur.com/2TGgqS0.png

The key before the reset ends with 7147.

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions:6
  • Comments:32 (19 by maintainers)

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WolfDWyccommented, May 7, 2020

We are seeing a lot of abuse from users where up to hundreds of API keys are being used for single applications. Because of this, we had to implement detections and reset keys that were being abused to bypass the limit. If users require an API key limit they can contact us via https://support.hypixel.net with their use case and why they need a higher limit.

Do you have an estimate on what are the “requirements” to get that higher limit?

Obviously, if you gave it to everyone, that would defeat the purpose, so who are you gonna give it to? What purpose should a use-case have to receive a limit increase?

Even if you can’t answer all of these questions, please provide more information about API Limits and abuse in the readme, as this was the first and only place I ever saw this mentioned.

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mewcommented, May 5, 2020

I shouldn’t have to worry about keys belonging to accounts that I purchased myself from Microsoft being invalidated because some algorithm you guys wrote thinks the keys were “compromised”.

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